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By Lawrence Taylor

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The latest from the front…. ER Nurse Sues Cop for Handcuffing Her During Dispute Over Drawing Suspect’s Blood Chicago, IL. Sept. 21 –A head emergency room nurse at Advocate Illinois Masonic Hospital has sued the city and a Chicago Police officer for handcuffing her and putting her in the back of a squad car during a dispute over drawing blood from a suspected drunken driver. Lisa Hofstra said she was the 'charge nurse' in the emergency room on Aug. 1 when the officer approached her at about 4 a.m. The officer requested she perform a blood work-up on a DUI suspect, the lawsuit said. Hofstra told the officer the suspect needed to be admitted to the hospital before she could draw the person's blood. Hofstra said she told a police lieutenant that it was the hospital's protocol to wait until a suspect was admitted, and the lieutenant agreed, she said...continue to full post

Full post as published by DUI Blog on September 23, 2009 (boomark / email).